Last week, you trained an image classifier with modern machine learning methods to achieve state-of-the-art results, making use of transfer learning from the ImageNet dataset, which was collected with large-scale crowdsourcing.
AI encodes and magnifies bias, and Google researchers found that ImageNet and another popular dataset called Open Images "appear to exhibit an observable amerocentric and eurocentric representation bias," as demonstrated by the distribution of geographically identifiable images in the datasets, with 2/3 of the images from the Western world.
In addition, classifiers trained on the datasets show "strong differences in the relative performance on imag